[New Feature]: Made it easier for developers to contribute to winget.

[gnpaone]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

I have made a Github Action currently in the Github Marketplace which makes it easier for the users to push/submit their packages to this repository as well as made it a lot easier to test the pushing of the package via the workflow and experience how it's going to look like (this is the place where I struggled at the beginning when I want to test my package long ago - so this solution). (just my little contribution to the developers). An example usage is here: https://github.com/gnpaone/MSEdgeRedirect/blob/main/.github/workflows/winget-test.yml
It helps users/developers a lot. Any reviews or suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

As I mentioned in here (https://github.com/gnpaone/winget-push-test/blob/master/README.md) default submission will be done to this repository or can try submitting to test repositories before directly submitting here, all done using Github workflow. One example is here: https://github.com/gnpaone/MSEdgeRedirect/blob/main/.github/workflows/winget-test.yml
I did tests to verify the working.

uses: gnpaone/winget-push-test@v1
with:
  url32:
  url64:
  version:
  token:
  packageid:
  user:
  repo:

[Trenly]

Not sure this is an "Issue", but it's more of a discussion topic

[jedieaston]

+1 on the discussion topic (you should be able to convert it in the sidebar), but this looks really cool. Thanks!

How long has GitHub let you package Actions that run on Windows only? That was the major reasoning behind microsoft/winget-create#160

[gnpaone]

Yah, it's kinda discussion topic. I think this repo owners only can convert this into discussion https://docs.github.com/en/discussions/managing-discussions-for-your-community/moderating-discussions#converting-an-issue-to-a-discussion

How long has GitHub let you package Actions that run on Windows only? That was the major reasoning behind microsoft/winget-create#160

The user mentions specifically to run in Windows in Github workflow so those Actions run in Windows only right. Commands like runs-on: windows-latest and shell: powershell

[gnpaone]

Actually, it is possible to specifically mentioning to run wingetcreate update in linux or macos via Github workflow but runtime will increase by 1-2 mins

[vedantmgoyal9]

I found another one: https://github.com/isaacrlevin/winget-publish-action

[gnpaone]

I will include appx too in mine soon in my next version 😉, any more new features/additions in winget-pkgs @vedantmgoyal2009?

[vedantmgoyal9]

@gnpaone well, your action uses wingetcreate so I don't understand what additional changes you've to make to support appx? wingetcreate already detects metadata from every type of Installer (including appx/msix).

[gnpaone]

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-create#using-the-msixbundle I mean like this? 🙃

[vedantmgoyal9]

That isn't required in my opinion, wingetcreate msix and wingetcreate exe are same.

[gnpaone]

That isn't required in my opinion, wingetcreate msix and wingetcreate exe are same.

Ohh ok, understood

[gnpaone]

Also recently read in an article that winget supports portable apps too https://winaero.com/winget-now-supports-portable-apps/, so any additions in manifests parameters/arguments recently (I'm asking generally, not only for portable apps)?

[gnpaone]

And there's some discussion going on zip file installer integration, any progress on that?

[gnpaone]

Hi @vedantmgoyal2009, I've seen winget releaser 😏. A small doubt, is the traditional way of submitting obsolete or something?

[vedantmgoyal9]

@gnpaone I don't understand what you mean to say.

[gnpaone]

I mean submitting directly to winget-pkg as before instead of like winget releaser is still supported right?

[vedantmgoyal9]

Yes, the action basically simplifies the process of getting versions, urls, updating manifests and submitting pull requests into one step so that everyone doesn't need to write their own custom workflow that does the same process. In other words, you can say it like a script, which can be customized according to one's needs and used.

[gnpaone]

Ok